Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
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"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
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I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
3 Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
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Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4 Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?
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Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?
5 Or is thy life human, or thy years of a man,
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Are your days like the days of mortals, or your years like human years,
6 that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
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that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
7 For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?
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although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
8 Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change , and smite me.
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Your hands fashioned and made me; and now you turn and destroy me.
9 Remember that thou hast made me clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
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Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again?
10 Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11 And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
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You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
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You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.
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Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
14 And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
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If I sin, you watch me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
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If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
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Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me.
17 renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.
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You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
18 Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
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"Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
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and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
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Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
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before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither see the life of mortals.
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the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness."
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